E088 Write Your Book with Peter Bowerman, The Well Fed Writer
Write Your Book with Peter Bowerman, The Well-Fed Writer
Is writing a book on your bucket list?
Are you looking for a bit of income from sharing your personal or professional knowledge. At this age you have an enviable asset: your experience. You can turn that experience and wisdom into personal satisfaction, cash or both by publishing your work.
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My guest also advocates for your consideration of commercial writing if you are looking to make a midlife career change.
Meet my guest, Peter Bowerman, The Well-fed Writer
Peter Bowerman, veteran commercial writer, is the self-published author of the three award-winning Well-Fed Writer titles (www.wellfedwriter.com), how-to “standards” on lucrative “commercial” freelancing. He chronicled his self-publishing success (100,000 copies of his books/ebooks in print and a full-time living since 2001) in the 2007 release and its 2014 update (both multiple-award-winners), The Well-Fed Self-Publisher: How to Turn One Book into a Full-Time Living. www.wellfedsp.com. In 2010, he launched The Title Tailor, his book-titling specialty (www.titletailor.com).
Peter’s recommended Self Publishing Resources:
Self Publishers:
Just look at this list of Peter’s awards and accolades then rethink everything you ever thought about self-publishing!:
THE WELL-FED WRITER (2000):
Selection of:
Book-of-the-Month Club
Quality Paperback Book Club
Writer’s Digest Book Club
Winner (SILVER): Foreword Magazine Book of the Year Awards (BOTYA)
Finalist: IBPA Ben Franklin Awards (Best First Book)
Honorable Mention: Writers Digest National Self-Published Book Awards
THE WELL-FED WRITER: BACK FOR SECONDS (2005)
Finalist: Foreword Magazine BOTYA
Finalist: IBPA Ben Franklin Awards
Finalist: Georgia Author of the Year
THE WELL-FED SELF-PUBLISHER (2007)
Winner (SILVER): IPPY Awards
Overall Winner: Georgia Author of the Year Awards
Finalist: Foreword Magazine BOTYA
Finalist: USABookNews “Best Books”
THE WELL-FED WRITER (2010):
Winner (GOLD): Next Generation INDIE Book Awards
Winner (SILVER): Axiom Business Book Awards
Winner (SILVER): IPPY Awards
Winner (SILVER): Foreword Magazine BOTYA
THE WELL-FED SELF-PUBLISHER (2014):
Winner (GOLD): Axiom Business Book Awards
Winner (GOLD): IBPA Ben Franklin Awards
Winner: (BRONZE) Foreword Magazine BOTYA
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This episode is dedicated to Diann Wingert, a frequent guest and now patron! Patrons donating $25 or more each month receive a reward of a custom poem , song or limerick. Here is Diann’s reward:
Diann is a fabulous coach,
But there’s a topic I really must broach:
She comes on the show,
Little does she know,
Her advice, I edit then poach.
Thank you Diann!!!!!!
